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A little nonsensical, but imagine that for some reason or other the world wide web is either deliberately shut down or some kind of galloping internet virus knocks everything out , with the result being that there is internet for the foreseeable future - how would people react and how would society adjust?

making ludicrous complaints about perfectly nice places. I won a trip to an amazing five star, 16th century hotel recently, and when I looked on TripAdvisor afterwards it had loads of people going 'It didn't even have double-glazing!!!'. It's hard to tell which places are genuinely dirty/bad/service/in a bad part of town, and which comments are written by trolls/nutcases.

1. make sure you skim over as many reviews as you can for general tone.
2. Ignore anything from America - they have very strange taste in hotels.
3. Ignore anything too emotional
4. Ignore anything from the clearly fucking stupid "we paid £59 for the room and there wasn't even a pool, let alone a concierge!"
5. Dig out the sane. The skim tactic really helps with this.
6. One of my latest annoyances is the bad review, like a one or two star, then i tturns out they loved the hotel but had a shit meal in the restaurant. Ignore those people too.

Right... Massive panic, global markets would collapse (or have a massive wobbly) as the amount of trades being carried out currently would be unsustainable, the record industry would be entirely vindicated in all it's complaints about the internet killing the music industry, the communications industry (telecommunications) would shift back to the pre-internet model of overcharging for telephone usage.

Basically, it'd go back to how things were in the mid-90s for the majority of things, with some aspects of society and economics going back to the early 80's.